According to what Dr. LaVelle said in class, all we need to know for black body radiation is that atoms and molecules usually only absorb or emit unique frequencies that are allowed by their unique electron structure, but black bodies (hypothetically) absorb or emit all frequencies.

kaitlindaugherty3L wrote:According to what Dr. LaVelle said in class, all we need to know for black body radiation is that atoms and molecules usually only absorb or emit unique frequencies that are allowed by their unique electron structure, but black bodies (hypothetically) absorb or emit all frequencies.